DeepSeek, the Chinese AI developer that jolted the industry in January by releasing a world-class model that it said it built on the cheap, now says it spent just $294,000 to train it.
Category: TRENDS IN AI – Sep 23 2025
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OPENAI’S AMBITIONS OUTSPEND ITS INCOME
So far this year, OpenAI—which valued itself at $500 billion in a recent stock deal—has contracted for $60 billion a year in Oracle computing services, paid $18 billion as a partner in a data service project, spent $10 billion on state-of-the-art computer processors, and said it will build a brand new AI device.
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LIGHT-POWERED AI CHIP IS MORE ENERGY-EFFICIENT, 100 TIMES FASTER
AI data centers could consume far less electricity, and process tasks as much as 100 times faster, thanks to a new graphics processing unit, or AI chip developed at the University of Florida.
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CHINA CUTS OFF IMPORTS NVIDIA’S CUSTOM AI CHIP
The Cyberspace Administration of China has ordered AI companies, including major developers such as Alibaba and ByteDance, to halt all present and future orders for RTX Pro 6000D chips made by California-based Nvidia, the world’s market leader in advanced AI processors, the Financial Times reported.
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U.S. TECH MAJORS COMMIT BILLIONS TO BUILD U.K. AI INFRASTRUCTURE
U.S. AI giants including Google, Microsoft, Nvidia, and OpenAI have committed to invest tens of billions of dollars to equip the U.K. with an advanced AI infrastructure, including data centers and supercomputers.
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AI WILL TRANSFORM WORLD TRADE, WTO REPORT SAYS
AI could boost productivity and lower costs enough over the next 15 years to increase the value of world trade by as much as 37 percent, according to a new report by the World Trade Organization.